Comparison

Pet Jima vs Balloon

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Pet Jima

Adopt, nurture, and evolve adorable pixel creatures on your own island. Decorate your home, send creatures on expeditions for rewards, and enjoy a relaxing, timer-free experience. Collect unique creatures and build your island paradise.

Highlights
  • 40+ unique pixel creatures
  • Creature evolution stages
  • Island decoration with 160+ items
  • Expeditions for coins and rare finds
  • Time-based creature availability
  • Offline play supported
  • Social island visits
Features
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Adopt creatures, feed them, keep them happy, and watch them evolve from babies to mega forms as they wander your island. Decorate your home with cute pixel art items. Send your creatures on expeditions to earn coins and uncover rare finds. Collect daily gifts, complete missions, and build up your island one tile at a time. No pressure. No timers counting down. Just a cozy island full of pixel creatures waiting for you. FEATURES 40+ unique pixel creatures with idle, walk, and directional sprite animations 4 magical habitats to explore and collect from Decorate your island with 160+ pixel art items Creature evolution: baby, adult, and mega stages Expeditions to earn coins and discover creatures Visit other friends' island Receive glass message bottles Daily gifts and bonus rewards Time-based creature availability — some only appear at dawn, dusk, or by moonlight Social features: friend codes, gift sending, and cloud backup No internet required to play for the main features No energy systems or wait timers

About

Balloon

Features
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Draw the wind. Guide a balloon through a continuous sky—city, clouds, storm, sunset, night, and the edge of space. Wind is a limited resource. Obstacles are fair. Near misses reward precision. Wish Fragments unlock looks, never power.

Screenshots

Pet Jima3 screens
Balloon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Balloon at none against Pet Jima's 5. Balloon also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Pet Jima sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Balloon asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Pet Jima versus Balloon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPet JimaBalloon
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (12 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better—
Update frequencyDaily—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB2 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperGenki MineYasin Dinc

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Pet Jima

One-time4
  • Pouch of Coins$0.99
  • Bag of Coins$4.99
  • Chest of Coins$9.99
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  • Treasure Vault2 variants$19.99
None

Balloon

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pet Jima free?
Pet Jima is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Balloon free?
Balloon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pet Jima or Balloon have ads?
Pet Jima shows ads; Balloon does not.

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